Tues Feb 3
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom St
San Francisco
8pm

At the heart of Arteaga's project is the ancient metaphor of a journey,
transgressing boundaries, toward a dark wood: of getting lost to find
something. --Michael Palmer, 1998

Langton presents Alfred Arteaga and Catalina Cariaga reading from new and
recent works in a program of experimental poetry and creative non-fiction.
Arteaga, a celebrated poet and Chicano Studies scholar, reads from his new
manuscript, Frozen Accident, and from his published work. In his essays,
Arteaga offers perspectives on the world as a wandering poet, probing
themes of violence, change, conflict, racism, and human vulnerability.
Cariaga's poetry blends critique, history, autobiography and anecdote in an
exploraton of what it means to be Filipina-American.

The DIASPORA POETICS literary series brings regional experimental poets and
authors into Langton's theater to reflect on Diaspora and cultural production.

Born in East Los Angeles, Alfred Arteaga is interested in how language and
colonial history have informed Chicano identity. Mr. Arteaga is the author
of two books of poetry, Cantos (1991) and Love in the Time of Aftershocks
(1998). He is editor of An Other Tongue: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the
Linguistic Borderlands (1994), and author of the essay collections Chicano
Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities (1997) and House with the Blue Bed
(1997). He earned a PhD in literature from the University of California at
Santa Cruz, and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
creative writing fellowship (1995) and a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship
(1993). He currently teaches poetry in the Ethnic Studies Department at the
University of California, Berkeley.

Catalina Cariaga is the author of Cultural Evidence (1999). Her poetry,
part of a growing body of acclaimed Filipina-American literary work,
addresses her family's diaspora from the South Asian Pacific Islands to
California's coast, exploring themes of cross-cultural understanding and
confusion. A contributing editor of Poetry Flash, Ms. Cariaga received her
MFA from San Francisco State University and has taught on the adjunct
faculty of the New College of California. Her poems have appeared in Chain,
New American Writing and ZYZZYVA. Ms. Cariaga works in Berkeley and lives
with her husband and son in Oakland, California.